Retracing Raven's Steps, a photo-essay through the Color Country
of the United States Southwest. Raven, according to Native American
tradition, is one of the creators of the world. He's also a cunning
trickster. Included in this essay are sights in Nevada, Utah,
and Arizona, clearly Raven's country.

A family reunion provided the incentive to put down the keyboard
and fly back to Germany after 18 years absence and rediscover the
picturesque bavarian landscape and sights in this photo-chronicle
from earlier this spring.

In spring of 2003, I took a trip to China. If there's something
vaguely familiar about that time, it should be: SARS was at its peak,
and in less than two months after that, the Three Gorges Dam Project would raise
the water of the Yangtze...